dumbfounding

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When you’re born and raised in the United States, American nationalism and English-language centrism are so deeply ingrained into the culture that watching an actor work in another tongue is dumbfounding.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

“The fact that these dumbfounding transfers in the middle of the night cause chaos, confusion, and minimizes access to legal representation does not seem to bother them one bit,” he said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

That was in Carnoustie in 1999 and featured one of the most dumbfounding triple bogeys ever on the 72nd hole of a major.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2023

Tuesday’s trade that sent the best young hitter in the sport to the Padres can be lots of things at once: jarring, predictable, dumbfounding, logical.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022

Beneath her fingernails, the frost makes billions of tiny diadems and coronas on the slats of the bench, a lattice of dumbfounding complexity.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr